Re: [Evolution] [IMAP] Filtering and Expunging

[Rúben Fonseca <rubenfonseca di uminho pt>]

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:12 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > * Whenever I have new mail, some filters are not applied. For
> example,
> > some (if not all) spam messages aren't deleted or emails are not
> > delivered to sub folders. I have to manually select the new emails,
> and
> > press Ctrl + Y to (re)apply filters. As you can imagine, after 2
> days,
> > you don't want to use Evo anymore. I checked and rechecked each
> account
> > and found the "Apply filters to new messages on this server" on.
>
> Do you have something else that is accessing your IMAP folders?  Like
> a
> mail notification applet or a webmail application.  The definition of
> "new" mail is dependent on the IMAP server - if something else has
> seen
> the mail, then it is no longer "new" according to the IMAP server and
> so
> Evo doesn't filter it.

Maybe this could be causing problems.. I will look at my machines
looking for mail notification programs and then I will report my results
later.

> > * When (manually or automatically) my email is filtered, it
> disappears
> > from the Inbox. This is ok. But if for some reason my evolution
> crashes
> > or I lost internet connectivity, lots of old "unfiltered" emails appear
> > as soon as I connect to the server again. It seems that when emails are
> > deleted or moved, evolutions caches the information but doesn't apply it
> > on the remote IMAP server. I search and found no option to do this. I
> > really want the emails to be expunged as soon as I gave an order to do
> > so.
>
> "Expunging" is a server side function, it's not Evo that does it - in
> fact most things to do with IMAP folders are done on the server side.
> The only time that Evo caches things like that is if it is working
> offline. 
>
> To me, it looks like there is something else fiddling with your mail
> boxes.
>
> P.
>
>
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